The animated film "The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda" based on the fairy tale by A. S. Pushkin was to become the first full-length film by Tsekhanovskiy and the fifth film written by Dmitriy Shostakovich. Work on the film began in 1933. The animation for the film was shot almost completely, and deposited in the Lenfilm archive, where it was destroyed in a fire caused by the bombing of Leningrad at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941. Of the feature film... (Full plot summary below)
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The animated film "The Tale of the Priest and His Worker Balda" based on the fairy tale by A. S. Pushkin was to become the first full-length film by Tsekhanovskiy and the fifth film written by Dmitriy Shostakovich. Work on the film began in 1933. The animation for the film was shot almost completely, and deposited in the Lenfilm archive, where it was destroyed in a fire caused by the bombing of Leningrad at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 1941. Of the feature film, only a six-minute fragment of Bazar with verses by Aleksandr Vvedenskiy and Shostakovich's unfinished and fragmented score is preserved.
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